Al-Hikmah University Journal

The study investigated the status of Office Technology and Management students (OTM) in acquisition of competency required in Information and Communication Technology (ICT). To achieve the objectives of the study, three research questions were raised and answered while two hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance.  The study adopted descriptive research design.  The population for the study consisted of one hundred and forty-eight (148) Business Education (Office Technology and Management option) students, there was no sampling due to manageable size of the population.  The questionnaire was face-validated by three experts from the Department of Business Education, Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijagun, Ogun State.  Test-retest reliability method was adopted to establish the reliability of the instrument with the co-efficient of r is equal to 0.78.  The questionnaire was administered to one hundred and forty-eight (148) respondents and all were retrieved and data collected were subjected to analysis.  Frequency and percentages were used to analyse respondents’ bio-data, mean and standard deviation were used to answer research questions while t-test statistic was used to test the hypotheses.  The findings of the study revealed that new office technological equipment are available for students’ use thereby benefited from the availability of the equipment.  It is equally revealed that respondents faced challenges in the effective utilization of ICT tools.  Based on the findings, it was recommended among others that, new technologies should be effectively used by the Office Technology and Management (OTM) students and government should make provision for funds for the timely procurement of appropriate Information and Communication Technology (ICT) equipment.